# Android build memory size setting

This plugin sets the maximum memory usage for Gradle when building Android apps.

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## Supported Platforms

* Cordova 10 or higher

## How to Add Plugin

1. From Monaca Cloud IDE menu, go to `Configure → Cordova Plugin Settings`.
2. Under *Available Plugins* section, hover over the the `MaxMemForAndroidBuild` plugin and click `Enable` button.

## Setting the maximum memory size at build time

1. Open the project and open `config.xml`.
2. If you want to set the memory size used in the Android build process to 4096Mb, you can do so as follows

   ```markup
      <preference name="monaca:jvmargs" value="-Xmx4096m"/>
   ```
3. Then you also need to change the maximum memory size used by Gradle Daemon, for example, if you want to set it to 4G, set it as follows

   ```markup
      <preference name="monaca:env:GRADLE_OPTS" value="-Dorg.gradle.jvmargs='-Xmx4G'"/>
   ```